You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
ABDULLAH IIEach country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what’s going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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I’ve benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it’s two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it’s a good thing.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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Is Israel going to continue to be “Fortress Israel”? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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I’m easily entertained.
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Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That’s the only way to defeat terrorism.
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